alt.HRI

Call For Papers – alt.HRI

Within the 12th Annual ACM/IEEE HRI Conference, alt.HRI is a venue for radical, unconventional, thought-provoking and rigorous submissions that have high potential for impact. One of the goals of alt.HRI is to explore the future of what HRI could be, including controversial aspects.

To guide this exploration, we look forward to submissions which follow this year’s alt.HRI theme: The Less Positive Side of HRI: beyond human acceptance, statistical significance and algorithmic performance lie deeper questions of positive and negative downstream impacts, and the transformational impacts that HRI work can have on society. Given possible detrimental effects, what new methodologies or techniques can be proposed to encourage awareness and more positive results? We encourage researchers to consider the bigger picture of their work. Not just “can we do this?” but “should we?”

alt.HRI sees itself as an avant-garde track targeting the boundaries of mainstream human-robot interaction submissions. As such, submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed, in a double-blind fashion, by a dedicated alt.HRI program committee that will be announced on the HRI website.

Specifically, alt.HRI has the following two acceptance criteria:

is there potential for relevance, controversy, or thought-provoking discussion, even if the work seems unusual, unlikely, or unorthodox?

is the work rigorous, well researched, well argued, well written, fully detailed and, if appropriate, well implemented?

While not a strict requirement, the authors are encouraged to relate their work to this year’s theme (“The Less Positive Side of HRI”), whatever their conclusions. We especially welcome submissions grounded in real robot system(s) (be it ethnographic, experimental or algorithmic evaluations).

Accepted papers will be orally presented in the main program and will be archived in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore Digital Library along with the main conference papers. Up to eight anonymized and camera-ready pages (excluding references are allowed).